Sales tax arrears

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kantharaja sk (Querist)
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02 October 2014 Dear experts

Actually one of my client he is manufacturing nature and this year he has paid sales tax arrears for last 3 years it costing Rs 8.5 lac due to this I am getting loss in my pl account how can treat said amt and increase my NP

CA Ashish Lodha

CA Ashish Lodha (Expert)
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02 October 2014 Well there are two ways actually,

if you want to claim it as a expense(which is i dont thing if scrutiny comes will be allowable, as sales tax is something which you collect & pay so cant be claimed as an expense) then pass a entry Assets dr to liability cr with the amount.
When paying the same reduce the liability.
& Debit the expense & credit the asset created in one instance or over equal installments as per your convenience.

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The right treatment would be as is it an arrears, income in the previous years would have been increased, so just pass entry debiting the "Reserves" & crediting the liability account, which will solve your problem of not reducing the Net profit & also giving the correct effect.